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CVE-2024-43800 (GCVE-0-2024-43800)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-09-10 14:50 – Updated: 2024-09-10 19:08
VLAI
Title
serve-static affected by template injection that can lead to XSS
Summary
serve-static serves static files. serve-static passes untrusted user input - even after sanitizing it - to redirect() may execute untrusted code. This issue is patched in serve-static 1.16.0.
Severity
5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-09-10 19:07 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
expressjs serve-static Affected: < 1.16.0
Affected: >= 2.0.0, < 2.1.0
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